Ethiopia’s media regulator has suspended prominent independent online outlet The Addis Standard, accusing it of advancing the agenda of a “terrorist group”. The publisher of the popular English-language website said late on Thursday it was disturbed by the decision and would appeal against it. The temporary suspension followed complaints and alarming trends in EMA’s (The Ethiopia Media Authority’s) monitoring findings,” the regulator said in an online statement. “We have learned that the Media has been a platform to advance the terrorist group’s agenda,” it added, in a likely reference to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) that the government has been fighting in the northern Tigray region since November 2020. News|Freedom of the Press Addis Standard news site suspended by Ethiopia’s media regulator The regulator accused the site of advancing the agenda of a ‘terrorist’ group, in a move decried by media rights organisations. International media watchdogs say the Ethiopian government has cracked down on the media since conflict erupted in the Tigray region in November. [File: Ben Curtis/The Associated Press] 16 Jul 2021 Ethiopia’s media regulator has suspended prominent independent online outlet The Addis Standard, accusing it of advancing the agenda of a “terrorist group”. The publisher of the popular English-language website said late on Thursday it was disturbed by the decision and would appeal against it. KEEP READING Fear pervades as Tigrayans rounded up after battlefield reversals Ethiopia PM pledges to repel ‘enemies’ after Tigray rebel assault Ethiopia regions send troops to back fight with Tigray rebels “The temporary suspension followed complaints and alarming trends in EMA’s (The Ethiopia Media Authority’s) monitoring findings,” the regulator said in an online statement. “We have learned that the Media has been a platform to advance the terrorist group’s agenda,” it added, in a likely reference to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) that the government has been fighting in the northern Tigray region since November 2020. The TPLF was designated by the government as a “terrorist” organisation in May but had dominated Ethiopian politics for 30 years until 2018. The Addis Standard’s publisher, JAKENN Publishing, said on Twitter it was “deeply disturbed” by the regulator’s decision to suspend its media licence. The company would appeal against the ruling, its founder, Tsedale Lemma, told the Reuters news agency by phone: “We plan to mount a legal defence against it because we think that this is not the right thing,” she said. In a tweet, Lemma also urged staff of the Addis Standard and JAKENN to “Hold your (heads) up!” “You are standing on the right side of your profession!” she wrote. Media crackdown After coming to power in 2018, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed oversaw wide-ranging reforms, including lifting bans on more than 250 media outlets and releasing dozens of journalists. His 2019 Nobel Peace Prize citation included praise for his “discontinuing media censorship”. But international media watchdogs say the government has cracked down on the media since conflict erupted in November with the TPLF, the former governing party in the northern region of Tigray. After Addis Standard issued a statement in early November urging the government to open channels of communication, Medihane Ekubamichael, a senior editor, was arrested at his home for “attempts to dismantle the Constitution through violence” and “outrage against the Constitution”. He was later released but then arrested again and held for about a month. Media rights groups were quick to condemn the suspension, with Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in a tweet retweeted by the Addis Standard, calling on the Ethiopian government to provide an official clarification on the action and to “refrain from further press freedom attacks against the media!”. Meanwhile, the Africa office of the Foreign Press Association tweeted: “Censorship, suppression and repression of the media only happens in authoritarian democracies”. The government denies press freedoms are deteriorating. The state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said on Sunday that police had arrested a total of 21 journalists from Awlo Media and Ethio Forum, two independent YouTube channels that have been critical of the government. The Commission said federal police had told it that three of the journalists had since been released. SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

Somalia intii ka dambaysay burburkii dawladii dhexe ee Somalia 1991 kii waxa markii ugu horeysay dawlad loogu soo dhisay dalka Djibouti gaar ahaan magaalada Carta, waxaana lagu soo doortay Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan sanadkii 2000. Magaalada Muqdisho xiligaasi waxa haystay hogaamiye kooxeedyo hubeysan oo mid waliba jufadiisa hor fadhiyo isuna qabo in uu madaxwayne yahay, waxa kale oo soo labaynayey kooxaha xoogaga maxaakiimta oo hubaysnaa ahaana awood qarsoon oo soo kobcaysa. Magaalada Muqdisho markii uu ka degay Madaxwayne Cabdi Qaasim Salaad Xasan ( 2000 ilaa 2004 ) waxa ku soo dhaweeyey xoogagaa hubaysan ee markii dambe isku badelay maxaakiimtii islaamiga ahaa, Al-shabab iyo Xisbul Islam, waxa sidoo kale dawladaasi oo dhaafi wayday Hutel Ramadan Muqdisho taageeray laba sadex hogaamiye kooxeed walow aanay awood lahayn . Xukuumada madaxwayne Cabdi Qaasim waxa ay yeelatay laba Raisal wasaare oo kala ahaa 1-Cali khaliif Galaydh, 2- Xasan Abshir Farax labadaba Alle ha u naxariisto e, waxaana ka hor yimid markiiba dalka Ethiopia iyaga oo ka cabsi qabay urur diimeedyada faraha badan ee awood doon ka ah in uu ka soo jeedo, gaar ahaan ikhwaanu muslimiin oo saldhigeedu yahay Egypt, waxaana ay xukuumadaasi qaadi kari wayday hal talaabo oo yagleel dawladnimo oo rasmi ah. Waxa ku xigtay xukuumadii uu gadhwadeenka ka ahaa madaxwayne Cabdilaahi Yuusuf Axmed (2004 ilaa 2008 ) Alle ha u naxariisto e oo iyada lagu xamanayey in Ethiopia wadato, waxaana lagu soo dhisay magaalada Embaghati ee dalka Kenya sanadkii 2004 . Xukuumadaasi waxa ay degtay Baydhabo oo ay ciidamo ku urursatay ay ka mid yihiin ciidankii maamul goboleedka Puntland oo uu Cabdilaahi Yusuf madaxwayne hore uga ahaan jirey iyo ciidamo Ethiopian ah oo badan, waxa Raisal wasaare ka ahaa Cali Maxamed Geedi, halka uu wasiirka arimaha guduhuna ahaa Xuseen Maxamed Faarax Caydiid. Dawladii Cabdilaahi Yuusuf hogaaminayey xoog iyo dagaal ayey ku tagtay Villa Somalia, waxaana dhacay dagaalo lagu hoobtay, dawlada Cabdilaahi Yuusuf waxa mus dambeed u ahaa dawlada Ethiopia sidaasi darteed ayey uga hor yimaadeen xoogaga islaamiyiinta ah, waxa kale oo ka hor yimid dadka deegaanka Muqdisho qaybo ka mid ah. Waxa dhacay dagaalo culus oo lagaga soo horjeeday in ciidamada Ethiopia Somalia soo galaan maadaama ay yihiin dal ay Somalia cadaawad soo jireen ahi ka dhaxaysay, dagaalkani oo markii dambe ujeedooyin kale yeeshay oo ay ururo argagixiso oo dano kale lihi dhex galeen, waxaa sameysmay mucaarid xoogan oo dal iyo dibad ba isaga yimid oo Asmara isku urursaday oo wadaado iyo siyaasiyiin ba isugu jira. Waxa is khilaafay Cabdilaahi Yuusuf iyo Cali Maxamed Geedi oo Raisal wasaare ahaa waxaana noqday oo uu Raisal wasaare ka dhigtay madaxwayne Cabdilaahi yuusuf, Nuur Xasan Xuseen ( Nuur Cade ) oo ay markii dambe is qabteen iyo Cabdilaahi Yuusuf oo loo arkay nin wada aargoosi siyaasadeed oo Ethiopia iska hor yimaadeen, markiiba caalamku cadaadis ku saareen in uu talada wareejiyo. Waxaa xigtay in la dhisay dawlad ay ku mideysan yihiin maxaakiimtii islaamiga ahaa oo uu la heshiiyeen maraykanka iyo dawladihii danaynayey arimaha Somalia xiligaasi waxaana lala hadashiiyey intii ka soo hadhay dawladii Cabdilaahi Yusuf oo uu Nuur Cade hogaaminayo waxa la dhisay dawlad ku meelgaadh ah oo wadata baarlamaan ka kooban laba baarlamaan oo la isku daray oo uu hogaaminayo Sheekh Shariif waxaana lagu dhisay dalka Djibouti caasimadiisa Djibouti 2009. Xukuumada uu madaxwayne Shariif hogaaminayey (2009 ilaa 2012 ) waxa ay fursad u heshay in ay haykalkii dawladnimo dhisto, diyaariso nidaam dalka Somalia kumeelgaadhka lagaga saarayo, waxaa hawlahaa gadhwadeen ka ahaa Raisal wasaare Maxamed Cabdilaahi Farmaajo oo ku helay sumcad badan iyo Xukuumadiisii la odhan jirey ( TAYO ) . Murug iyo isqabsi dhacay ka dib waxa heshiis Kampala lagu gaadhay in Farmaajo iyo xukuumadiisa la rido oo xiligaasi faro baas ku haysay kooxaha argagixisada iyada oo dan loo arkay markaasi cid wadatayba, waxaana heshiiskaa Kampala Accord aqbalay Maxamed Cabdilaahi Farmaajo oo sidaa kaga tagey xilkii, xukuumadiisiina dhacday. Waxa kale oo Maamulka Sheekh Shariif iyo sadexdii Raisal wasaare ee kala dambeeyey diyaariyeen hab federal ah in dawladnimada Somalia loo badelo oo maamul goboleedyo la dhiso waxaana la iskula qaatay shirarkii Garoowe 1 iyo Garoowe 2 oo mudo kooban ka horeeyey shirkii London ee dib u dhiska Somalia 2012 oo 52 dawladood oo aduunka ahi ka soo qayb galeen. Shirkii London 2012 waxa uu ahaa shirkii ugu horeeyey ee Somaliland iyo Somalia kawada qayb galaan waxaana ku jirey oo ahaa shirarkaasi communique keegii 26 qodob ahaa qodobkiisa 6aad in beesha caalamku adkaynayso in xukuumada ku meelgaadhka ah ee Somalia iyo kuwa ka dambeeyaa wada hadal la furaan Somaliland . 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Madaxweynihii xigey waxa uu noqday Maxamed Cabdilaahi Farmaajo ( 2017 ilaa hadda 2021 ) fadhiya oo ku ololeeyey in aanay aheyn wax la aqbali karo in Ethiopia Somalia dhexdeeda ka taliso waxaana uu ku helay taageero iyo cudud weyn oo dadku siiyeen xiligaasi maadaama aad loo dareemayey culeyska Ethiopia. Ayaan darada dhacday Madaxwayne Farmaajo oo jooga ayaa muwaadiniin soomaaliyeed inta uu qab-qabtay Ethiopia u dhiibay oo uu ka mid ahaa Qalbi dhagax, ka dib markii xukuumadii Tplf meesha ka baxdayna waxa uu noqday garabka koowaad ee Abiy Ahmed iyo dawlada Ethiopia oo ay wada galeen heshiisyo sadex geesood ah dalalka Somalia, Ethiopia iyo Erateria. Xigasho hadalsame media Maxamed Cabdi Jaamac Maxamed Dhimbiil FG: Qoraal kasta wuxuu ka tarjumayaa aragtida qoraha ku saxiixan